Indonesia: Silent Settlement

In Djakarta last week, President Sukarno
continued to resist the demands of military leaders that the Communist
Party be outlawed for its sponsorship of the Sept. 30 coup
attempt. Meanwhile, outside the capital in the hundreds of islands that
form the Indonesian archipelago, individual army units and bands of
violently anti-Communist Moslems were reportedly working to make the
argument academic.

According to accounts brought out of Indonesia by Western diplomats and
independent travelers, Communists, Red sympathizers and their families
are being massacred by the thousands. Backlands army units are reported
to have executed thousands of Communists after interrogation in...